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Panorama Necto vs Splunk Security Essentials comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Panorama Necto
Ranking in Data Visualization
19th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (31st), Reporting (20th)
Splunk Security Essentials
Ranking in Data Visualization
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (13th), Security Incident Response (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Panorama Necto is 2.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Security Essentials is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Splunk Security Essentials0.9%
Panorama Necto2.5%
Other96.6%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

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Programmer Analyst at Tech Services Company
The infographics feature is unique to Necto. However, they need better tutorials and community support.
The best feature I liked is the infographics which is great and it's best unique feature. It helps developers use existing infographics from the library or they can create their own and present to end users It's quite easy to create reports in Necto using the infographics feature. Collaboration…
reviewer2836941 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Centralized monitoring has given our SOC real-time visibility into security and application activity
When I first implemented Splunk Security Essentials in this environment, it took a week for each log source to onboard and to create use cases and implement the data model, CIM, etc., for production readiness. Training is mandatory, and we need at least the Splunk Security Essentials User certification because it is a very critical resource in the organization, as we are handling security logs. In my organization, Splunk Security Essentials is used not only by the SOC but also for monitoring logs across different teams, as it is important for handling both security and application logs, given its capability to manage unstructured logs. Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The licensed version is very cost effective, as the cost is really very low when compared to its competitive products."
"Excellent in memory performance, return results with clicks, matchless click to collaborate features, just initiate discussion on data points and context, connect relevant users and dashboards and explore suggestive auto insight."
"The major strengths of this product are social business intelligence, insights and intuitive self-service."
"This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful to small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization on their diverse databases, with lesser intervention of IT."
"This tool is extremely beneficial for self-service data discovery."
"Panorama Necto provides a governed and guided data discovery platform, with auto-generated dashboards as a very good starting point for data discovery, simple and vibrant infographics that can be customized to a cell level, a handy collaborating feature to initiate discussions with relevant users, and good performance."
"The product is very easy to use, very ideal for rolling out a self-service data discovery and visualization solution for data scientist and business users."
"It is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce interactive dashboards in ways that make sense to the enterprise."
"The network monitoring feature is particularly valuable for gathering information about users, login times, and other statistics."
"Splunk Security Essentials has dramatically impacted my organization, as without it, we were blind to what is happening from both a security and application perspective, and it provides vital visibility into the organization's operations."
"They have a good catalog of plans to use to resist the attacks."
"We are focusing on security to ensure incidents are reported efficiently. In addition to that, for reporting purposes, we are utilizing our dashboards or creating new ones. We will be using free visualization tools for this purpose."
"Splunk Security Essentials has impacted my organization in that we have been getting the results that we wanted."
"I would have to rate Splunk Security Essentials a 10 out of 10 because it's free and there's tons of usable content."
 

Cons

"Support for multiple languages is still under review and yet to be implemented."
"There are limitations for big data analysis."
"Panorama doesn't have big community support and many issues we refer to the technicians."
"Online tutorials on this are not available. This should be done or documentation can be improved."
"Improvement needed for big size BI application."
"Support for other languages should be provided."
"Blogs or videos related to the use of the tool would be more helpful in understanding how to use it."
"The performance with large data volumes needs to be improved."
"The biggest friction points I have with Splunk Security Essentials are the high license costs and user behavior that causes performance issues due to inappropriate wildcard searches."
"They could add more AI content or AI and machine learning."
"The reporting feature needs to be more user-friendly."
"It takes a lot of time to install Splunk Security Essentials. It's not very difficult, but it requires time."
"If I could change one thing about Splunk Security Essentials, it would be pricing. I believe they are still very costly as compared to the competition."
"The price could be improved."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
16%
Construction Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Security Essentials?
Our SecOps manager and CISO were more familiar with Splunk, and the price was right. That was probably the primary driver, and we did evaluation as well with strict criteria and Gartner ratings.
What needs improvement with Splunk Security Essentials?
The biggest friction points I have with Splunk Security Essentials are the high license costs and user behavior that causes performance issues due to inappropriate wildcard searches. Additionally, ...
What is your primary use case for Splunk Security Essentials?
My main use case for Splunk Security Essentials is for Enterprise Security, specifically the ES app. Splunk Security Essentials is my primary tool for threat detection and monitoring because as a S...
 

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